Australian Federal Police to implement VoIP
Source: voipcentral.org
The Australian Federal Police AFP is prepared itself to implement VoIP with ten sites going live in the last six months. The AFP has adopted a cookie cutter approach to the IP project with each site receiving a standardized large or small install depending on its size. The number of staff covered by the rollout was not divulged.
However the migration is believed to be one of the nations largest. Mark Barret, the network engineer with the organizations information services division said,
The Australian Federal Police is in the process of implementing a new IP telephony system with ten sites going live in the last six months. The AFP has adopted the cookie cutter approach to the project under which each site receives a standardized large or small install depending on its size.
The VoIP project will benefit the AFP as the local families of overseas AFP operatives in between thirty and forty countries could now call their loved ones over the network for the cost of a local call.
